Events for November 8th, 2009
Muppet Fairytales
Ages 3+. Running time: 70 min.
Sponsored by St. Peter’s Lutheran Church
- Sun, Nov 8, 12:15 pm
The Frog Prince (1971, Jim Henson), The Elves and the Shoemaker (David Grossman, 1994) and Rapunzel. What happens when you kiss a frog? No one can better tell that classic fairytale than Kermit and his friends. And, what if the elves that come to the aid of the shoemaker are actually Elvises? If Rapunzel appeared on Sesame Street, what twists on the story would you expect? See these classic tales through the eyes of the Muppets in this program of rarely seen shorts.
Rear Window
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. US. 1954. NR. Running time: 112 min.
- Sun, Nov 8, 2:00 pm
In his first pairing with Alfred Hitchcock, Stewart is a news photographer who, wheel-chair bound with a broken leg in his Greenwich Village apartment, watches his neighbors through his bedroom window and comes to believe that one of them (a pre-Perry Mason Raymond Burr) has murdered his wife. More »
Bright Star
Directed by Jane Campion. UK. 2009. PG. Running time: 119 min.
Fri, Nov 6 thru Thu, Nov 12 -- Roll over to view showtimes.
“Set in the bucolic suburbs of early-19th-century London, as fresh and dewy as a newly mowed lawn, Jane Campion’s Bright Star recounts the love affair between a tubercular young poet and the fashionable teenager next door. It’s more conventionally romantic than wildly Romantic—but no less touching for that.” More »